Ah. . .at last a worthy thread, to which I can make a contribution!
My my. . .I see you fellows are handicapped by not having set of written instructions such as I provide for scratch building the Genie and the LT/S.
I follow them, step by step. Then I don't mess up or waste time reinventing the wheel, so to speak. I work leisurely and not really efficiently. I go from the workbench to the computer, visit with friends, watch my soap opera, fix my meals, tend to my domestics, etc. etc. I get sleepy after lunch and after dinner and get virtually nothing done then.
I might get an hour of actual construction work done at the workbench in a morning and a couple in the evening on most days.I finally come fully awake between about 10 and 12 PM.
Yet, I did build 5 LT/S's totally from scratch from raw materials (except for cores from Les) in the last year, besides carving a couple of plugs.
Doing 2-3 hours a day, I can easily go from A to Z on an LT/S in 3 weeks. I suppose, working efficiently full time, it could be done in a week, but many steps require curing of resins that introduce long delays. I'm not organized well enough to get much else done at the workbench during those delays. You guys who know how to organize and prioritize can do better.
At the moment, I'm simultaneously building a pair of the LT/S. I started on the fuses on the 8th and have been dinging around, inefficiently, since then. Today I'll be finishing up the glassing over of the 2nd one. This has to cure well to go to the next steps preparatory to painting. I get about 20 hours of real work into one of these slick fuselages. You can't count the sitting and staring at the workbench as work. You can see what these fuses look like in File 10 at http://genie.rchomepage.com/.
Oh, I forgot, I've also done the tail pieces, ready for Monokoting, since the 8th. See File 2 about tail pieces.
By the time the 2 sets of Les's cores arrive, the fuses and tails will be in ready-to-fly state.
I probably take longer do a bagged wing than others because I want finished/painted glassed over wood LE's, wood endcaps that fit each other, a wrapped gorilla launch resistant CF spar system and a nice paint trim job. I detest the look of unpainted carbon and Kevlar. I suppose 30 hours of actual work, anyway, go into a wing.
I'm thinking 55-60 hours of actual work goes into an LT/S airframe, but for $250 I have a $1,000 plus ship.
Yep, you guys need a good set of instructions. Check out Files 1,2 and 3 in the web pages. While you are at it, quit procrastinating and build an LT/S or two for 2005.
Man, this is fun!
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